Bitcoin Optech newsletter #383 is here: - describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library - summarizes the LNHANCE soft fork proposal - relays a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under GSR's varops budget - highlights discussion of optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures - Optech Newsletter #383 Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...
 Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about a theoretical consensus failure in NBitcoin that could occur when using OP_NIP...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...
 Moonsettler proposes a soft fork for LNHANCE now that all four of its constituent opcodes have updated BIPs and reference implementations...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...
 Julian posted a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under the varops budget...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...
 Continuing the discussions around hardening Bitcoin against quantum computing, conduition presented his work on optimizing the SPHINCS signing algorithm...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383
This week’s newsletter describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discuss...
 Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #382: - Updated stats on compact block reconstructions - A motion to activate BIP3 and replace the current BIP process - 3 questions from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange - And more You can listen on our website:
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 12/03/2025 · 1h 6m
TheCharlatan joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #380: - The Bitcoin Kernel - And more You can listen on our website:
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.Releases and release candidates● LND 0.20.0-beta...
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 11/18/2025 · 44m
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #376 is here: - shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template - summarizes a paper outlining a covenant-less vault construction - Bitcoin Core 30.0 release - Optech Newsletter #376 Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376
This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...
 Discussion continued around the proposal for full node peers to occasionally send each other their current template for the next block using compact block relay encoding...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376
This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...
 Francesco Madonna posted to Delving Bitcoin about a concept which is a covenant-less vault model using taproot, OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY, and OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376
This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...
 Bitcoin Core 30.0 is the latest version release of the network’s predominant full node. Its release notes describe several significant improvements...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376
This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covena...
 Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
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Matt Morehouse, Daniela Brozzoni, and Gustavo Flores Echaiz joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #373: - Eclair vulnerability - Research into feerate settings - 12 Bitcoin Stack Exchange questions with an OP_RETURN focus - Bitcoin Core 30.1 release candidate and testing guide - And more You can listen on our website:

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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 10/01/2025 · 1h 45m
ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #372: News 16:24 LSP-funded redundant overpayments 1:02 Partitioning and eclipse attacks using BGP interception Changes to services and client software 13:49 Zero-knowledge proof of reserve tool 15:12 Alternative submarine swap protocol proof of concept Releases and release candidates 39:14 Bitcoin Core 30.0rc1 1:16:28 BDK Chain 0.23.2 Notable code and documentation changes 1:17:19 Bitcoin Core #33268 1:18:56 Eclair #3157 1:19:52 LND #9975 1:20:21 LND #9677 1:20:41 LDK #4045 1:21:32 LDK #4049 1:22:18 BDK #1582 1:23:13 BDK #2000 1:24:17 BDK #2028 You can listen on our website:

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis to discuss Newsletter #372.News● LSP-funded redundan...
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Podcast Episode · Bitcoin Optech Podcast · 09/23/2025 · 1h 27m